I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship.

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

Chase your dreams even with the last breath.

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

A monetary order created and managed by politicians and officials is bound to disappoint.

I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?